Stephen Savage

Courtesy Affiliate, Retired Faculty or Staff

Coor Building Room 5533 TEMPE, AZ 85287-6505
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Long Bio

Stephen H. Savage has worked in the Near East for nearly 40 years, including fieldwork in Jordan, Israel and Egypt. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University (ASU) in 1995. Currently he is a Scientific Software Engineer for ASU's Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development and the Institute for Humanities Research (OKED/IHR). He was the IT Manager for ASU's Archaeological Research Institute from 2007 to mid-2014. At his Geo-Archaeological Information Applications Lab, he has developed large-scale archaeological and GIS database applications for a variety of platforms, including the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land, the Aegean Digital Archaeological Atlas, and the Mediterranean Archaeological Network. He has created several demonstration applications for the Google Earth API project gallery, including Drive the Solar System (http://gaialab.asu.edu/SolarSystem) and the USS Voyager Exoplanets (http://gaialab.asu.edu/exoplanets) websites. He has conducted workshops in Jordan, Greece and Norway. Since 2000 he has directed the Moab Archaeological Resource Survey in Jordan.

His research interests include early complex societies in the Near East and North Africa, the Levantine Bronze Age, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt, mortuary analysis, spatial analysis, GIS and remote sensing, database development and design.

He has published in American Antiquity, the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Near Eastern Archaeology, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Radiocarbon, the Journal of Archaeological Research, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology and the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

He is a Visiting Research Scientist and Affiliated Investigator at the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), QualComm Institute, University of California, San Diego, and a Senior Fellow at the Capitol Archaeological Institute, George Washington University.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Old World Archaeology (SW Asia, North Africa); Neolithic-Bronze Age Southern Levant; Predynastic Egypt; Urbanism, Migration and Trade, Paleo-environments, Mortuary and Spatial Analysis; Archaeometry; Geographic Information Systems; New World Prehistory (U.S.Southeast-Archaic, Southwest-Hohokam); Computer Applications in Archaeology.

Research Activity

Savage,Stephen*. Climate Change and Human Impact on Ancient and Modern Settlements: Identification and Condition Assessment of Archaeological Sites in the Northern Lev. NASA-GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CTR(7/1/2010 - 6/30/2013).
Savage,Stephen*. Integrated System for Cultural Heritage Inventory and Assessment in Iraq. WORLD MONUMENTS(3/1/2005 - 12/31/2006).
Savage,Stephen*. DEVELOPING AN AMS RADIOCARBON BASED CHRONOLOGY OF THE PREDYNASTIC EGYPTIAN CEMETERY, N7000, AT NAGA-ED-DER. NSF-SBE(9/1/1999 - 2/29/2004).

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